tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107877012020-04-22T03:53:14.269-07:00The SwordAdventures in Early Christian WritingsMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-40716863558264860572012-12-12T20:38:00.003-08:002012-12-12T20:38:27.607-08:00Zombie Bible Series
The Bible -- with Zombies! Today only $.99 on the Kindle Daily Deal, which, if you have Kindle, you should be watching. The Blurb...
Father Polycarp has a Gift. He can bring peace and rest to the restless dead.
At his touch, each hungering corpse lies still at last. But to do this, Polycarp must first look into each one's blind eyes and find the remnant of the soul caught within the shamblingMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-42568489933347746722012-04-22T16:35:00.000-07:002012-04-22T16:35:08.330-07:00Streetview brings you old IsraelMissing Israel? Streetview now does it:
To help you explore Israel’s history and present, we’ve launched imagery of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Haifa on Street View. You can explore the narrow streets of Jerusalem’s Old City and each of its four quarters, walk along the Via Dolorosa and see the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, visit the Western Wall and theMount of Olives. You can stop by the Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-39129527562210205212012-04-17T20:26:00.013-07:002012-04-17T23:24:57.878-07:00Reviewing Ehrman Did Jesus Exist?: IntroductionDid Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of NazarethBart Ehrman
HarperOne, 2012
I've decided to do a chapter by chapter review of this hefty volume on the historical argument for the existence of Jesus of Nazareth by longtime New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, a thinker and scholar whose previous works I have found both admirable and informative -- his books are generally well written,Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-86841253956937309282012-04-01T23:34:00.000-07:002012-04-01T23:34:45.048-07:00University Class Editing of Wiki PagesThis came over the intertubes from H-Asia. Might be useful as a class project in your field...
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April 2, 2012
Wiki Writing?
From: Richard Jensen <rjensen@uic.edu>
The folks at Wikipedia are promoting the idea of university classes incorporating Wikipedia projects. That is the students would made additions to Wikipedia articles, for class credit. The professor would monitor the Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-21502567258061255742012-03-27T18:49:00.009-07:002012-03-30T01:07:09.811-07:00Hippolytus, Josephus, Essenes: Christian editing of Josephus?Sid Green, a net-acquaintance, argues that Hippolytus in Refutation of All Heresies copied his information on the Essenes from Josephus, and the way that he presents the information indicates that Josephus has undergone editing by Christians.
I thought I'd compare the two to see how this idea works, and to flex my rusty NT blogging muscles. For reference, At the bottom of this post after the Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-73186978559198292272012-03-20T21:49:00.000-07:002012-03-20T21:49:19.194-07:00Canon SX260 HS ReviewWell well. I've finished a careful reading of Doherty's Jesus: Neither God Nor Man. I've got Price's book on the problems of mythicism and Ehrman's new volume waiting for me to put eyes on them. Expect reviews shortly. In the meantime, I've got a first impressions review of the new Canon SX260 HS I just got on my Taiwan blog with some sample pics.Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-86350571543198214552012-03-09T06:56:00.002-08:002012-03-09T06:57:24.868-08:00Not yet....Still trying to get going blogging here, but too much stuff going on right now.Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-59637291605232597112011-06-14T00:09:00.000-07:002011-06-14T00:09:40.929-07:00Darrell Doughty on Tacitus RecoveryI was hunting for this page and found out it is no longer up at
http://www.courses.drew.edu/sp2000/BIBST189.001/Tacitus.html
So I thought I'd save it here, out of the cache. Thank all gods for the Wayback Machine.
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Tacitus' Account of Nero's Persecution of Christians. Annals 15.44.2-8
Text and Discussion
This passage is often cited by Christian scholars as an early witness Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-29537003907913498662011-04-03T20:11:00.001-07:002011-04-03T20:12:17.483-07:00Well, still not here yetI was going to be posting here, but then a local county government gave me a great gig that has me traveling most of my off days down in southern Taiwan. Hope to see you all by the end of the month.Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-27079792347077072452011-02-16T06:15:00.000-08:002011-02-16T06:22:17.499-08:00Bible Argh from NewsweekAll over Facebook and Twitter is Newsweek's completely incompetent article on marriage and the Bible:First, while the Bible and Jesus say many important things about love and family, neither explicitly defines marriage as between one man and one woman. And second, as the examples above illustrate, no sensible modern person wants marriage—theirs or anyone else's —to look in its particulars Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-23204345856336627122010-12-25T07:15:00.000-08:002010-12-25T07:51:46.341-08:00*Creak* Letting some light in...I've decided to re-open this blog over the next couple of months. So let's let a little light into this place with some pics from my ride last week up in Miaoli, the county north of Taichung city where I live. Cycling has become a kind of national sport in Taiwan, one that blends the emerging concepts of green leisure and sustainable lifestyle -- here in Taiwan marketed as a consumer ideal ratherMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-89064363342920933792007-03-26T01:02:00.000-07:002007-03-26T01:10:06.273-07:00CFP: Christianity and China, J of Amer-E Asian RelationsHere's a fascinating topic combining Christianity with foreign affairs in a key global location:++++++++++++++++H-ASIA March 25, 2007Call for Articles: Special Issue of Journal of American-East Asian Relations********************From: "Dong Wang" Call for Submissions for a Special Issue of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations"Christianity in China as an Issue in the History of United Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-70452179680984261572007-03-16T07:13:00.000-07:002007-03-16T07:19:30.715-07:00Esther as Taiwanese OperaA Taiwanese opera group has decided to stage the Jewish tale of Esther from the Christian Bible using Taiwanese opera.A rare combination of traditional Taiwanese opera and orchestral music with the Bible story of Queen Esther will be presented by Yage Theater at Taipei City Hall's playhouse at 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow.Yage Theater and Everlight Chemical Industrial Co. have invited senior Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-85660239105992286752007-03-01T21:37:00.000-08:002007-03-01T21:38:23.911-08:00Revving up for ActionWatch this space. I'll be posting soon.Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1142857458981342002006-03-20T04:01:00.000-08:002006-03-20T04:35:19.843-08:00Blogging IssuesI haven't been around here in a while, and it doesn't seem likely I'll have much chance to blog here more than once or twice a month, as my work schedule has increased dramatically, since my parents are coming this summer and my son is going back to hideously expensive private school next semester (*gasp of pain*). I am also trying to finish two books this semester.Lately I've been nurturing my Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1138792381876214382006-02-01T02:55:00.000-08:002006-02-01T03:14:18.020-08:00Mark 7:1-23Back from celebrating Chinese New Year in Hsinchu to return to the discussion of Mark 7:1-23 on the NT Gateway blog. Goodacre was wondering about the problems translating the "parenthetical" comment at the end of Jesus' speech in 7:18-19:Now it may be that the standard translation picks up the sense of this interpretative clause, even if it overstates it, but even there I am not sure. Could the Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1138070086372272572006-01-23T18:27:00.000-08:002006-01-23T18:45:03.880-08:00The Gospel Hoax by Stephen CarlsonThe Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith's Invention of Secret MarkStephen C. CarlsonBaylor University Press, 2005, 151 pages"The way of testing it, therefore, was not to consider what the machine had read, but rather how it had read it....Regardless of the thoughts passing through the mind, the thought patterns record themselves unique to the person. I compared yours with a record of Murugan's which I Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1137990010221179482006-01-22T20:13:00.000-08:002006-01-22T20:20:10.246-08:00Gibson on Mark 14: Was Jesus Killed in the Temple?I finally got a minute to read Gibson's paper on the blasphemy charge in Mark 14, which he posted to the list a last week.In this essay Gibson argues that the writer of Mark intended to compare the Sanhedrin who tried Jesus to the Zealots of the Jewish rebellion. Gibson locates parallels between the trial before Jesus and the sham trial of Zachariah son of Baruch by the Zealots:"Here, as in Mk 14Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1135399490845314702005-12-23T20:18:00.000-08:002005-12-23T21:57:43.426-08:00Hurtado, Segal, Kloppenborg Criteria Discussion at SlateMark Goodacre left a parting Xmas gift on his blog, a link to a discussion between scholars Larry Hurtado, John Kloppenborg, and Alan Segal about NT historical studies. Alan Segal commented:New Testament scholars who wanted to show that Jesus was a historical figure have developed over the last century criteria for judging the historical reliability of a source, like the New Testament, which was Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1135348425433783462005-12-23T06:09:00.000-08:002005-12-23T06:33:45.453-08:00DSS, Physical Anthropology, and the NT Ivory TowerRecently on the Bibilical Studies discussion list, ably hosted by Jim West (how can he do that AND have a life?), there was a discussion about how layman view scholars, and their interaction with the public. One point I made was(5) There is no history of scholarly debate *out in public* in this field. Contrast that with the debates that are staged out in the open over, say, human prehistory, Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1135158328361372212005-12-21T01:15:00.000-08:002006-04-03T16:09:10.736-07:00What is the Bible Literacy Project Really?Recently the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) forum published a review of "The Bible and Its Influence," the new textbook which the Biblical Literacy Project is promoting for use in secondary schools across the United States. A paragraph in the review caught my attention, for it repeated criticisms of the project that I had made several months ago on this blog:It is not surprising in our Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1135078889221896372005-12-20T03:37:00.000-08:002005-12-20T03:41:29.236-08:00Bible Math TextbookFrom the humor category, Harper's Readings has some excerpts from this Biblical Precalculus textbook for youths in private Christian Schools, published by that center of academic excellence, Bob Jones University:A line can be described either by its slope (a ratio) or by its inclination (an angle). These terms describe the deviation from the horizontal, but the word inclination also has a Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1134897579629753522005-12-18T01:05:00.000-08:002005-12-18T01:19:39.633-08:00Ekphrasis, Atwill, Isis, and the TFAbout six months ago I summarized Joseph Atwill's arguments regarding the TF and its surrounding passages.Fundamentally, Atwill regards the two paragraphs immediately following the TF as parodies of Jesus and early Christianity. As I noted before:Atwill then notes the very interesting fact that both tales have essentially the same plot. In both tales wicked priests trick a woman of "dignity", Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1134810604686684742005-12-17T00:54:00.000-08:002005-12-17T01:10:04.793-08:00Jacob Aliet's Review of My Commentary on MarkA good friend has reviewed my Commentary in detail and very usefully. Here is his review. I'm setting up as a permament web page as well. Review of Michael Turton's Historical Commentary on the Gospel of Mark Reviewed by Jacob Aliet, Dec. 2005 . <!--[if supportFields]> PAGEREF _Toc122163235 \h <![endif]-->27<!--[if gte mso 9]> Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10787701.post-1134809614242102992005-12-17T00:45:00.000-08:002006-01-18T17:21:02.873-08:00Technorati Tag PostI'm starting this list of technorati tags for ease of access in the future. After I redo my sidebar in the next couple of weeks, I'll incorporate it in an easy to find spot. I did the same thing over on my Taiwan blog and it turned out to be really useful.[Christianity][Gospel of Mark][Acts][Bible Literacy Project][chiasms][Dead Sea Scrolls][Earl Doherty][historical Jesus][Jesus Myth][Josephus][Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.com1